If you've not been watching Apple's WWDC 2015 keynote, I can't blame you (it's really long), but news just dropped that Apple's upcoming streaming music service - Apple Music - will be coming to Android. Eventually.

The press release for Apple Music says the service will launch at the end of June on iOS, OS X, and PC, but Android support won't arrive till an unspecified time in the fall of this year. So, some time between mid-September and the end of the year, basically.

Apple Music will cost $9.99 a month for an individual plan, but everybody gets a free 3-month trial to start. Family plans for up to six people will be $14.99 a month. The service includes Apple Music Radio, a new live radio service launched by Apple starting with the Beats 1 station with real, live DJs. Apple Music will be available in over 100 countries at launch and will boast a catalog of over 30 million songs.

Press Release

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apple® today unveiled Apple Music™, a single, intuitive app that combines the best ways to enjoy music — all in one place. Apple Music is a revolutionary streaming music service, a pioneering worldwide live radio station from Apple broadcasting 24 hours a day and a great new way for music fans to connect with their favorite artists. Apple Music combines the largest and most diverse collection of music on the planet with the expertise of world-class music experts who have programmed playlists for your iPhone®, iPad®, iPod touch®, Mac®, PC, Apple TV® and Android phones.* Apple Music will be available starting on June 30 in over 100 countries.

“All the ways people love enjoying music come together in one app — a revolutionary streaming service, live worldwide radio and an exciting way for fans to connect with artists.”

“We love music, and the new Apple Music service puts an incredible experience at every fan’s fingertips,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services. “All the ways people love enjoying music come together in one app — a revolutionary streaming service, live worldwide radio and an exciting way for fans to connect with artists.”

“Apple Music is really going to move the needle for fans and artists,” said Jimmy Iovine. “Online music has become a complicated mess of apps, services and websites. Apple Music brings the best features together for an experience every music lover will appreciate.”

Apple Music

Apple Music is a revolutionary streaming service and app that puts the entire Apple Music catalog at your fingertips across your favorite devices. Starting with the music you already know — whether from the iTunes Store® or ripped CDs — your music now lives in one place alongside the Apple Music catalog with over 30 million songs. You can stream any song, album or playlist you choose — or better yet, let Apple Music do the work for you.

Curation is the soul of every playlist created on Apple Music. Apple has hired the most talented music experts from around the world, dedicated to creating the perfect playlists based on your preferences, and they become better curators the more you listen. The “For You” section of Apple Music provides a fresh mix of albums, new releases and playlists, which have been personalized just for you.

In addition to human curation, Siri® is also dedicated to helping you enjoy great music and have fun with Apple Music. Ask Siri to, “Play me the best songs from 1994,” “Play the best FKA twigs song,” or “What was the number one song in February 2011?”

Apple Music Radio

Beats 1℠, Apple’s first ever live radio station dedicated entirely to music and music culture, will broadcast live to over 100 countries. Beats 1 is a 24-hour listening experience led by influential DJs Zane Lowe in Los Angeles, Ebro Darden in New York and Julie Adenuga in London. Listeners around the globe will hear the same great programming at the same time. Exciting programs on Beats 1 will offer exclusive interviews, guest hosts and the best of what’s going on in the world of music.

Apple has also redesigned radio with human curation taking the lead. Apple Music Radio gives you stations created by some of the world’s finest radio DJs. The new stations range in genres from indie rock to classical and folk to funk, with each one expertly curated. With membership, you can skip as many songs as you like, so you can change the tune without changing the dial.

Apple Music Connect

Artists and fans now have an incredible way to connect with one another directly in Apple Music with Connect. Through Connect, artists can share lyrics, backstage photos, videos or even release their latest song directly to fans directly from their iPhone. Fans can comment on or like anything an artist has posted, and share it via Messages, Facebook, Twitter and email. And when you comment, the artist can respond directly to you.

Pricing & Availability

Starting on June 30, music fans around the world are invited to a 3-month free membership, after which a $9.99/month subscription fee will apply. There will also be a family plan providing service for up to six family members available for just $14.99/month.

Requires initial sign up. At the end of the trial period, the membership will automatically renew and payment method will be charged on a monthly basis until auto-renewal is turned off in account settings. Family plan requires iCloud® Family Sharing. See www.apple.com/icloud/family-sharing for more information.

*Apple Music is available on your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac and PC starting June 30. Apple Music will be coming to Apple TV and Android phones this fall.

Apple revolutionized personal technology with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. Today, Apple leads the world in innovation with iPhone, iPad, the Mac and Apple Watch. Apple’s three software platforms — iOS, OS X and watchOS — provide seamless experiences across all Apple devices and empower people with breakthrough services including the App Store, Apple Music, Apple Pay and iCloud. Apple’s 100,000 employees are dedicated to making the best products on earth, and to leaving the world better than we found it.

Comments

phahahah no thanks.
I don't remember my pass for Apple ID.Can I sign with Google? :D

caseyrain

Why would I use this when Google Play Music already works perfectly on both Android and iOS?

Corey Watford

More artist, and better family pack

caseyrain

Can you upload 50,000 songs to it like with Google Play Music? Cos I have a shitload of songs in my library that aren't available on iTunes.

Adam Charron

Doesn't iTunes match do something like that? Idk cuz I never used it, but it I think I heard something about it a couple years ago.

justafew

Yes, iTunes match does something similar, but for $25.00 a year….not free.

andy_o

I don't know why people keep bringing up the free 50,000 songs as a reason to use the paid GPM. It is not a perk, it's free and it behaves the same if you use paid-GPM or Apple Music or any other app. Is using the same app for all your music that important?

Manol Chalakov

but it's an unique feature of GPM ;)

caseyrain

Yes, actually. I want all my music in the same place, whether it's my personal library or not. And I'd like it to work with my Android Wear device. And I'd like it to work with my Nexus Player. And I'd like it to work in any browser, wherever I am.

GPM does all of this.

Morten Ulv

It's free, so it's not a perk. Wat.

andy_o

A perk is something that you get under certain conditions, it's not free. For instance, if GPM let you upload 500 songs for free, and 50,000 songs if you also paid a subscription, the extra songs would be a perk.

But never mind about the 50,000 songs thing. Like someone else said, I might actually be in a minority that doesn't mind using 2 different apps.

Morten Ulv

When comparing two different products, a feature one app has over the other is a perk. And yes, using two music apps means you have to have two sets of playlists etc. But if you're fine with that, great.

RadarJammer

For more artist, I'm on Deezer besides being a GPM early adopter. Deezer has a lot of free three-month premium promos.

mark

If the only place I can get an artist is through Apple, then the problem is with the record company. Anti-competitive practices are not a point in favour of Apple.

By "better" you apparently mean "cheaper" - I'm not a cheapskate (I have to laugh that being cheaper is constantly denounced as being a valid reason when it's not Apple, but the one time Apple is cheaper at something, no matter how specific the circumstances, it gets repeated endlessly!)

charrondev

Because streaming, and in-app performance on Google Play Music is hot garbage, at least on my Nexus 5.

That is a sad statement unto it self. When Google can't even get a messaging app right, there's something wrong.

ProductFRED

I hate to say it but I switched from Hangouts to Facebook Messenger for most of my communication aside from texting (I use Google's Messenger app for that, which is pretty good). FB Messenger just has common sense features like chat heads, and is pretty fluid overall compared to Hangouts. In fact that only complaint I have about it, besides it being non-Material, is the damn thumbs up button being so easy to press.

Facebook even took care of one of my biggest complaints about Messenger on desktop, which was having to log into Facebook for it. Now I just use messenger.com.

I like it personally, but I will say, the GPM app on iOS is actually much better then the one on Android. The interface is prettier, and it's much speedier.

mrjayviper

probably like Hangouts on iOS. material design right there on the competing platform...

EowynCarter

I have two issues with it.

No folder browsing, eats data like crazy.

MyLeftNut

I cancelled my All Access subscription after Google stopped attempting to solve my problem of International and Amazon/iTunes exclusive albums being replaced by the normal All Access version. Their solution to me was to go through my Library and change all metadata so that GPM stopped confusing them. Not to mention all the playback errors and tracks randomly buffering and skipping or entire albums refusing to play because of connection problems. People having the same problems in the support forums with only a "we're looking into it" from Google made my mind for me.

MyLeftNut

Worse is attempting to upload a few thousand tracks at a time only to be informed x tracks were not successfully uploaded with no info as to which ones. It's caused to me to delete my library and strict from scratch uploading one album at a time. Tedious.

Lupe Fiasco

This, Google Play Music is garbage on Android. I'm not going to say iOS music player will be better on Android without trying it out first but I can guess it will shit on GPM.

charrondev

The thing is my mother uses Google Play Music on her iPhone and it performs much better. I use spotify right now, but I miss uploading my own songs. Spotify is like the little engine that could with streaming though, I can keep a stream going on 2g, while Play Music will struggle to start a new song on LTE

Manol Chalakov

Yeah like Siri does with Now...oh wait

charrondev

I love Google Now and Android, but you have to admit Google has some fuckups. *Cough* hangouts team *cough*

caseyrain

I use it across Nexus 6, Nexus 7 2013, Nexus Player, Windows PC and iPad Mini 3 with no problems on any of them.

*shrugs*

charrondev

I'm pretty sure I'm not alone in this. If I'm on wifi it will obviously stream just fine. And it must be a newer nexus 7 than mine because my (original) Nexus 7 runs everything like garbage now. Lack of a dedicated desktop apps also irks me a little bit, which is a shame because I love the ability to upload my own songs into the service.

He isn't. Almost everyone I talk to hates the GPM app, and I do too. The performance is terrible if you have a large uploaded library, streaming persistence is abysmal, and it freaks out constantly on my Nexus 6. I cancelled All Access for Spotify because I was just so tired of dealing with GPM and all its endless bullshit.

caseyrain

I have 30,000 songs in mine and have no problem with it on my Nexus 6, or Player, or 7, or web. And I pay for All Access too and I'm happy with it.

Dude you have to be lying, or at least blissfully ignoring the shit GPM throws at you.
I'm happy with my All Access subscription, on a desktop it's fantastic that I only have to log into a website to have access to my entire music collection, making my music incredibly portable, but the android Application is a shambles. It's the clunkiest piece of shit I've used in a long time.

WORPspeed

Have you used Hangouts recently? Because GPM is doing just fine for me. No lag and no loading issues. On the phone I have my music made available offline, but on the comp it streams from the cloud.
It works perfectly fine for me.
Hangouts on the other hand......ugh

Abraham

My Nexus 5, 7 and Moto X 2014 play the music over WiFi and LTE without a problem. Its interesting that you had so many problems with Google Music (I use All Access).

I kinda do wish Google Music had a family plan. That is pretty nice.

TedPhillips

GPM and hangouts are both fantastically slow on older devices.

catalysto

What? It has worked amazingly well on all my Android devices including the Nexus 5 and Nexus 6.

mark

No problem here either.

JeanClaude

Hum, I'm really surprised. GPM works way better for me then Spotify. Spotify is much slower, and the interface is terrible. I also find the suggestions to be abysmal on Spotify compared to GPM. And the curated playlists on Spotify are also awefull compared to GPM.

Anyways, I'm just hoping none of these streaming service adopt an exclusivity model like Tidal is trying to push. I'll be back to torrents if they do.

Morten Ulv

Good luck syncing your huge library to every android device you own with Spotify. That shit is fun. :)

neo905

The thing about Spotify is that it is more power hungry app I had on my phone. That alone made me have to uninstall it.

Leave them alone! LOL. They will insist on loading their devices with lots of shitty resource hogging apps (which you can't do on iOS by default), then complain about poor performance.

philosopher_Mk

No device limit , more artists and probably streaming performance.

Supermarioooo

I find the Google Play Music app is actually more stable on iOS, I've been using it on an iPad for sometime without any issues, but on my Nexus 5 it's really up and down and updates often knacker it. I'm personally going to cancel my Google Play subscription and switch back Spotify, the playlists stink on Google Play, the "recommendations" can be bizarre and it's too reliant on Google plus which no one uses and the default playlists are poor which makes it really hard to find interesting new music. Spotify was way better, as quite simply a lot more people have Facebook and Spotify accounts so you end up with a better selection of playlists, i was always finding new music to listen to on Spotify,

Apple will have the same issues as Google, I wouldn't pay for either as what's the point of spending 9.99 a months and then just listening to the same stuff as apparently Apple and Google think they know better

hredkioo

No thanks even thought i have an apple id. I will stick with play music.
Edit: maybe i will make use of that 3 month free and cancel after that

The Rock

gotta admit that $14.99 for families is cool. Wish Play Music did that. Right now 3 people in my family have it for $9.99 each

What? No. That's not how the family plan works. Everyone can use it simultaneously. That is the POINT of a family access plan.

Jonathan Cammisuli

Yea, I know how the family pass works. I thought prometheus1010 was saying to get 5 friends to split the google play music price.

Yeshu

I am going to get 5 or 6 "family members" (read: friends) signed up for this. Hope they don't start banning accounts - I'm sure lots of people are already thinking about this.

MyLeftNut

I am reading that once you've linked all those people to a family account, they'll have access to the primary account credit card for other iTunes purchases. Sounds like a deal breaker for many people.

prometheus1010

They said all "family members" get separate accounts, so there should be no issues like this or seeing someone else's music library.

bgraham

You'd each have to have your Apple IDs linked to the same credit card though

Hetz Ben Hamo

Huh? With Google Play Music, you can stream with up to 10 devices with the same account that pays the $10 for Music Pass.

Isaac Cintron

The Apple Music service allows you to have different playlists and songs for each person. Which is why Apple Music's solution is more family oriented. I don't want my brother or dad's music in my library.

catalysto

I prefer not to share my account credentials. Also, we would share a library? That would drive me crazy.

justafew

True, but they can’t have different playlists/songs for each person and you can’t stream concurrently. If someone is streaming on another device, my device gets cut off.

Tíghearnán Carroll

That's not the same thing. That's actually nowhere near the same thing and you know it.

AuroraFlux

No. It doesn't work that way. You can't stream simultaneous (you can't even watch YouTube music videos concurrently by yourself, forget family members).

Justin W

Yes, but you can't stream to them all at the same time.. That is what Apple Music is allowing.

mark

So Apple Music is for poor people. I can afford to pay more for quality.

-arguing like an Apple fan

WORPspeed

Only broke families get the family plan. Rich families just go for individual Google Play Music subscriptions :D

Really, is no one mentioning the fact that Apple Music doesn't specify ANYWHERE that you have music on demand? From what is specified on the website, you have $10 a month for the free version of Spotify for Android... They revolutionize the paid trials...

James

You didn't do much research. It does specify it is on demand. Nice try mate.

Ugh. I'm still waiting for Pandora to fully support Android Wear as much as Google Play Music does where you can control the app from the watch. I can't see Apple ever optimizing Apple Music for Android Wear...

dhamp2g

Dude u need Google play music it just kills Pandora

Gregory

Even if no, you'll still be able to cast it via "cast screen" :)

Justin W

Not as reliable as a direct cast implementation though. Can all but guarantee it will have Air support though.

f

No, but it will shortly be available in more countries than Google Play.

ahahahaha

Trevor Hicken

So it's more expensive if you got the 7.99 lock then Google Play Music and probably won't use Material Design. I guess for families with Apple computers and iTunes that this could benefit

Justin W

I actually think it'd be hilarious if it imitated the Music app that was shown off at I/O last year.

Adam Charron

There was a screenshot and it looked kind of materialish. They take their own guidelines seriously and have for a long time. Hopefully they'll respect android's here.

andy_o

It's not more expensive. If you're taking the promotional $8/mo hook that's just dishonest. The family plan is a crazy deal as well.

Ghisy

#boring #snore

Manol Chalakov

#revolutionary #applereinvertsmusic #again #theverge

Mozaik

#applehater #2010jokes

Manol Chalakov

I'm #1000% sure that they've said those things - both The Verge and Tim Cook.
I actually watched WWDC live but it was so boring that I fell asleep :D

I see plenty of reasons. It's awesome, it's not Apple, it's compatible with virtually everything that isn't an Apple device while Apply Music will still be heavily locked down, and it's already been very, very successful for Google. I'm not worried.

jak_341

A lot of the online streaming applications are terrified right now. Pandora, All Access, Spotify, Slacker, and Tidal are all in the sights of that freight train known as Apple.

Manol Chalakov

Tidal was born terrified of very very bad PR.It'll probably end up in Apple or if someone even wants to buy it at all.
I think there's place for all.It's good that they have competition.

bimsebasse

Maybe some of those new to streaming will appreciate that you can upload 50,000 songs to Google Music for your streaming pleasure, that was the deal breaker for me, previously a happy Spotify user.

andy_o

Yeah, but when the time comes to pay, the 50000 free song upload is not an incentive to use GPM-paid, unless using the same app for all your music is super important to you.

bimsebasse

I suspect you may be in the minority if you think having your entire music library in one place isn't particularly desirable. This of course doesn't apply for people who can find almost everything they listen to available for streaming through e.g. Spotify

andy_o

Maybe, now that you mention it. I do use several different apps but pay for GPM, but only because of inertia after my free 6 months expired.

Manol Chalakov

I don't know who will switch to Apple on their Android device with Google account and services build in.It just doesn't make sense.Also 50k of your own music for free,everywhere.

andy_o

Nice to meet you. (Provided that the Apple music app is better, e.g. gives me Sound Check and syncs with iTunes.) I would probably still use GPM for the free uploads though.

Manol Chalakov

Well it's good to have choice but for me it's just too many accounts.
p.s also I really don't remember my Apple ID.

Marcelove

I would pirate every possible music before throwing any money at Apple... What's the point buying an Android and support Cupertino using any of its products? Many would answer saying "to get the best from every place" , like a S6 and its hardware and the cheap price from Apple's music... But doing that they would keep IOS as "the only place where the real money is"...In other words, they would make the competitor stronger what in long term doesn't help Android at all... If someone wanna stick with Apple, do it using its devices... It's bizarre someone use anything from it through Android...

ted

no thanks

drcaveman

Give me facetime and photo stream, and I literally have no reason to hold onto that ancient iPad Mini anymore

Fatal1ty_93_RUS

also iMessage

drcaveman

Yup forgot about this I have never been able to pull people away from iMessage into Hangouts

Hitokage Tamashi

I can relate. I have a few groups of friends, and in one of these groups, I'm the literal only one with an Android device. The rest all have iPods or iPhones, so they all talk on iMessaging. I've tried and tried and tried to get them to go to kik (Hangouts sucks imo, doesn't always tell you when you get a message, at least on my phone), and each time fails miserably.

ProductFRED

This is sort of a trojan horse for Apple. Not in the traditional "malware" sense. But in terms of Apple now being able to collect Android device usage metrics. This will definitely be a broader case if carriers like AT&T start preloading the app on their devices.

Also, what's with the crappy phone in their Android mockup? I mean don't get me wrong, they're not stupid enough to give the S6 free advertising. But at least make up a decent generic one.

senor_heisenberg

I'm guessing it just replaces Beats Music? Hopefully it looks like an Android app as well, and not a ported iOS app.

OmniWrench

I wonder if Apple apps on Android will run as well as iTunes runs on Windows?

nside1

Haha, I HATE itunes.

Miguel Ripoll

Why? It does the job.

If I want to upload a song on Google Play Music I'll have to refresh the page, re-upload it again, ask myself why the hell it doesn't appear yet uploaded... Sometimes it does the job well, but those times are when I'm lucky enough.

Justin W

For uploading songs, have you tried the upload manager? Or have you been uploading it via the web interface? Either way it should be relatively quick, but I've found directly uploading music via the browser is the quickest way to get it to appear, and the upload manager is what takes forever.

@tannercalcagno:disqus - So here's the scoop, according to Google support person. Grabbing a free album on Android, it downloads the album to the device. If you try to delete in Google Play Music, it wants to disassociate the album from your account (ie you lose access).

But if you go to Settings -> App Manager -> Google Play Music & delete the data, all the data gets deleted off the phone ... but you keep the album access (once you log back in).

Bizarre!

MyLeftNut

I find the opposite true, funny enough. Uploading via the manager is fast for me and all my tracks get uploaded. Uploading via web is a nightmare. At least one or more tracks fail to upload and then I have to search through my recent uploads to find which ones because it doesn't give you that information. Also for some reason, uploading iTunes or Amazon exclusives albums with extra tracks on GPM always defaults to the Google Play version and fails to upload the extra tracks unless I use the manager.

Miguel Ripoll

I'm using their web app, mostly because Google prefers to use this way. I'll consider to switch to Music Manager but I don't know if it will be obsolete soon.

drcaveman

It's so bad, I'm the only one in my family with Android so I needed phtotstream on my pc its maybe only 10% reliable. Most of the time i get page script errors. I tried to show them how good the new Google photos is, but isheep are a stubborn bunch.

philosopher_Mk

More artist and it doesn't have device limit. I fell sorry for Google play music .

Bobby Tait

Just gonna use the 3 month free trial. I've been bouncing between music services for the past year and a half and only payed about £10! Been using free trials and the offers that are usually £3 for 3 months or £1 for 1 month etc and its been a year and half now!

CJ

ahahha lool your like me...ive got deezer for 3 months cause bought note 4 in april...but will do the same with this apple thing

I think it's going to look fine, but it's not likely to conform to Material perfectly. It'll have iOS's theme in appearance (I forget what it's called), so it'll look somewhat similar to Material, but there will be differences.

Eisenhorn1976

They probably have a dedicated team working on the Android app -- so it's entirely possible they'll implement a Material-ish UI.

I'm not holding my breath, though:

1) Going by how iTunes looks on PC's, Apple will probably insist on its own design. Apple Music on Android follows the same strategy as iTunes on a PC (i.e. put your software on the more widely-used platform -- it was arguably this that caused the iPod to explode in popularity); and
2) Some of Google's apps on iOS follow Material design -- the Photos and Drive apps are good examples -- so Apple might say "well, since you're using YOUR design language on OUR interface, we'll use OURS on YOURS."

someone755

If they can't get the design right, chances are they aren't able to make a good app.
I've not yet seen a good app that doesn't follow Google's design guidelines (current or past), though I'd love to see that change.

I love Google Music but I will have to seriously consider cancelling and going to Apple Music just based off the Family Plan feature alone. I have always wanted some type of family plan feature for Google Music. Hopefully they'll implement before or soon after Apple's app hit Android.

Tobias

Family sharing won't be available on Android.

neo905

How do you know that? Also, people have switched platforms for a lot less. It would be in Google's best interest if this is true, to revamp their app and include a family plan as well.

Vesta12

Please, don't bring it to Android, but if you do, please take your time, no one will notice.

Adam Charron

Personally, I'm very excited for some more competition. The spotify app hasn't been upgraded in ages. The GPM music app garbage (this is what happens to me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8FtBbBC7Mc), Tidal seems expensive, and Deezer is unavailable in many countries.

jak_341

I'm also excited about Apple's music service. I'll be getting it on day 1 when it comes to Android.

Supermarioooo

What 3 months free music... I think plenty of people will notice

Madis Otenurm

What phone is that? Must've been a popular phone to be that iconic.

Nogib

Why the fuck would I want any of Apple's stupid shit on my phone? Not happening. Not now, not ever.

gh0st_h4wk

Apple stuff on my master-race Android phone? No, thanks.

James

Piss off with your stupid fanboyism. Grow up.

gh0st_h4wk

Have you ever heard of something called SARCASM?

liaN

Well, I don't think he can smell your sarcasm through written text on the internet. Don't say it was obvious. It wasn't.

It must burn them like hell to even include the word Android in their press release, lol.

jak_341

They will be making money off Android users. Also, if they make a high quality app that exceeds Google Play Music, it's a major smack in the face to Google. It's a can't lose scenario for Apple.

Tomáš Petrík

I know, I was just referring to the recent news when an app was banned from their App Store for mentioning the word Android, or including an Android news in one of its screenshots.
Honestly, it's not that difficult to surpass Google Play Music. For instance, I use Spotify.

jak_341

Tried it. Didn't like it. I don't mind DJs on the station. In fact, Iike hearing them. I want to hear them talk about music (tell me who is touring, who has a new album coming etc.) I don't want commercials though.

wuafri

i use spotify premium

McDanky

Here's how they can get in the "cross platform" line into the copy from here on out.

Isaac Cintron

I am a longtime fan of Google, but I feel as though Apple's Keynote had more to offer than this year's Google I/O. It was really impressive during the Keynote to see the split screen view running on the iPad and how the video of ESPN was playing all the time. Yes, split screen has been on a few Android devices for a couple of years now, but it is just finally making its way into stock and we didn't even get a preview of it at I/O. The interactive News app on iOS was really cool as well.

If you think I/O was a disappointment I'm not sure what planet you live on.

jak_341

I was hoping for a Hangouts revamp, A
Android Wear announcement of more features, etc.

Android M is nice, but won't see it. Those that do won't until Android N is announced.

Calvin Uijlen

Hangouts revamp is not something happening on I/O.
Just wait for new updates to appear @ your Play Store :)

Adam Charron

I enjoyed IO, although I will say I think developers got a lot more out of it than consumers.

Adam Christensen

You hit the nail on the head. I/O = Developers Conference... Some people are convinced that there should be new consumer products announced at every big event.

Manol Chalakov

I/O is about developers if you want flashy names for normal stuff and #revolutionary "News" app announcement than Apple is the way to go.

Manol Chalakov

Wait really?!
You probably didn't watched the whole I/O...
Apple just announced a couple of apps,watchos 2.0 = wear 5.1 and yes the multi window which actually is in Android M Developer Preview.

Isaac Cintron

I watched all of Google I/O. I agree that WatchOS doesn't beat out Android Wear by a longshot. What did I/O really bring us? Hardly anything new to be honest. I believe that this year is mostly about optimization of Android Lollipop, but it definitely shouldn't be an M release. Feels more like a Jellybean 4.2 -> 4.3 update. I also liked how the Swift programming language supports Linux and is open source. Just saying that the Keynote was more enjoyable than I/O.

saf1927

lolno, Android M is more like JB to ICS or Kitkat to JB. It doesn't mean it's going to be Android 6.0, it's probably going to be Android 5.2. Google missed out quite a few features from the keynote, split-view being one of them.

mark

Well as you note, it is making it way into stock - so you're just criticising that they didn't showcase it in a presentation? That's Google's style - Apple hypes over old features, while Google delivers new features to the masses without the fuss.

I'm not sure I'd call anything impressive when Windows and Samsung did it years ago on tablets, and even then multitasking or split-screen wasn't exactly cutting edge computer technology. I could do four things at once on my Amiga too. (Possibly it's new for Apple, who never did manage to write their own multitasking OS...)

CoreRooted

But... do we really need "new" or do we need "fixed and updated"? I'm leaning toward the latter as Android M is shaping up to be really good in terms of fixing the things with L that people complain about. Wear 5.1 is really maturing nicely. The "new" that we need is really updating what Google already has out there: gVoice, Hangouts, Inbox, Now, etc.

Apple always try to wow people with "new" when Google does amazing things with "updated".

(I hope that made sense; Pre coffee post lol)

Isaac Cintron

Hmm I agree Android does need some fixing and upgrading at the moment. Don't get me wrong, I am really excited to see the improvements Android M will be making, but I don't think there is enough improvement to warrant a "M Release". Part of me is still bitter that there is no Chromecast 2 on 5Ghz band and 802.11ac. Not sure what is taking so long. lol

Never bought a single song from any service;I couldn't care less.
I do buy movies,games and apps.

NinoBr0wn

I've always been surprised/confused at the amount of people who have complaints with Google Music and Hangouts. They both work fine for me.

Doakie

Yeah I don't understand either... Never had a problem with them even on OLD devices.

Tíghearnán Carroll

I call BS, sorry man. There's absolutely no way GPM hasn't gave you issues on an older phone when next-to everyone's Nexus 5 can barely run the app without having issues.

CoreRooted

I can (and do) run GPM on my N7 without a stutter. I can run it on it on my LG GPad 7 (V-410) without any issue either (over LTE). I haven't seen a lot of people complain about GPM on N5s. I'm not saying it isn't true, just haven't seen a lot of grumbling about performance. A lot of people griped about design though.

Sir_Brizz

What? I never had any issues on my N5...

Isaac Cintron

I just wish they would update Hangouts UI to Google Messenger.

Serge Cebrian

google play messenger

bgraham

Is that the HTC First? (aka Facebook phone?)

Serge Cebrian

nope

bgraham

Looks like it

mattbaconator

Similar body, but the capacitive buttons are different, which I really liked about the HTC First.

To be fair, Apple allows Google Play Music in their store, so it should be the other way around.

Ryan Johnson

Or Google can be a mature company and not play childish games with other companies that want to use their platform.

AllPurposeRadio

Agree with that completely no issues a music app but an Android app that helps people switch to iOS that's ridiculous.

Ryan Johnson

It's ridiculous that they're making an app that makes it easier on people to switch from Android to iPhone? Are you serious?

AllPurposeRadio

No it's ridiculous that Google would allow an app on the Play Store that encourages people not to use theirs.

Ryan Johnson

How so?

Marcelove

Yeah, like if Apple wasn't a child...

Ryan Johnson

Last time I checked Apple wasn't denying Google Play Music or any other Google applications from their App Store just because they have their own ecosystem.

Lawrence

Apple got split windows first in their OS..

mark

Where "first" means "after lots of other OSs".

Hexykins

I really wish it wasn't called Apple Music. It just doesn't sit well in my mouth. Although I'm a faithful user, I gotta say that Google Play Music takes the streaming-service-naming-cake though.

saf1927

So we'll see the first app by Apple on Android? Curious to see if they will follow Material guidelines for the app.

Hemlocke

I'm betting that is a big "NO!" Google doesn't do it on iOS, so you can be sure Apple will repay that favor.

Narciso Neto

So Apple is now interested on Android user base? Ok, I'll pass it anyways.

VAVA Mk2

Hell no. I am happy with Spotify

Theo

in what quality will it stream? is 256/320 kbps a dream?

neo905

256kbps

drcaveman

Did this just happen?

My how things have changed from the days when Steve Jobs vowed to destroy Android

abazigal

Tim seems to be settling for Google directly instead of gunning for Android, if the latest changes to iOS are of any indication. It seems like Apple intends to starve Google of data inside iOS, which in turn means less potential for ad revenue for them.

The bad thing is, you HAVE to download and install to rate an app.
So even though if we rate it 1 star, it will be reported to Apple that MILLIONS downloaded the app. I'll just ignore it exists.

Marcelove

Nope, you just nerd start the download to rate, but you don't need to finish the transfer... Hit download, drop 1 star, hit cancel download ;-)

JaxVenture

At least their heads aren't too far up there... they were smart enough to know you can't compete against spotify or pandora with just the Apple user base alone.

Supermarioooo

Yeah I'll take 3 months for free, I don't see the issue and I think most people outside of the geekosphere will think the same. Outside of geek land most people don't give a crap about "loyalty " to some faceless gigantic multi national, all the average person cares about is a good deal

Personally I've used Google Music and it's not as good as Spotify, and I doubt Apple's will be any better, there's no free option and neither have options for Facebook users to create playlists, say what you want about Facebook but it's still the biggest social network and having more varied playlists is the best thing about Spotify as you get to see some great stuff from actual real humans, Google's recommendations and default playlists were piss poor and having seen how iTunes does it's recommendations I doubt it will be any better. Rather see Spotify hold onto it's place at the top.

TigerMike901

It won't be "launching" on ANY of my Android devices, but nice try Apple.

Phil

Not sure why I would want this, when Google Music offers better choice of music, cheaper plans and better curation.

Sir_Brizz

I would like a family plan version of GPM.

LeVvE

I wanted to try this but it would have had to have a good standalone desktop client as well and I'm NOT installing iTunes.

squiddy20

Besides iTunes, is this their first app/program to be offered outside of the Apple ecosystem?

A.M

yes 1st app ever to see an Android counter part

Supermarioooo

Nope, they used to make Safari for Windows, it was actually better than Internet explorer back when there wasn't much competition (before Chrome and I think it would been in the very early days of Firefox), and other stuff like Quicktime has been available for Windows PCs for like 15-20 years. Technically the Beats music Android app was also owned by Apple and this new one will just replace it really

Kiryn Silverwing

Hmm, if they had a free option that only let me listen to my own purchased music without any of the music discovery stuff (like GPM does) I would actually seriously consider this despite how much I hate Apple.

I've been looking for a new solution to cloud music since GPM took away the 5-star rating system in their recent update, and the only other music service I know of that uses 5-star ratings is iTunes. I was actually lamenting last week that there wasn't a version of it for Android, but if they're going to charge me $10 a month to listen to music I already own, no thanks.

Smartss

No.

Dezense7

Spotify is still better

saltyzip

Please don't give Apple any of your hard earned money for this, remember we are the "junk market" according to Tim Cook.

WesleySmalls

Because there wasn't enough variety(In that there are many other apps that do exactly the same thing and offer pretty much the same library) in the market already!

Deepak Sharma

Some lovely hate comments xD

neo905

Maximum of 256kbps isn't good when the industry standard is 320kbps and Tidal offers much higher than that.

Marcelove

Better just at brainwashing its customers...

Alan Shannon

I pay €5.99 a month for Spotify Premium through Vodafone Ireland, this announcement doesn't make me wanna switch in the slightest.

Michael Button

I don't allow iTunes to infect my pc, I won't let it near my Note II either. ITunes is garbage that gums up the whole system.

Ryan Johnson

Note how this application isn't iTunes

nav27v

Note how this application is made by the same people as iTunes.

Ryan Johnson

Note how this person is suggesting that Apple Music is the same thing as iTunes

Awayze

Your Note is garbage. Tim Cook must cry at night because you don't use his software.

Damodara das

I wonder what kind of permissions the / Apple Music for Android / app will request.

Marcelove

Judging Apple users, permission to your brain...

abazigal

Will google still get its 30% cut of subscriptions? Seems ironic in a way.

AllPurposeRadio

Had Google Play Music since the day it was announced & released(still got my $7.99 a month rate) and my daughter can use it on her phone and I can use it on my 2 Android devices. Why would I need to an extra $5 for a family plan.

neo905

It depends. The problem is when you share a plan with your kid. Your Library and playlists and listen now ends up littered with the music they like. If it happens to be what you like to listen as well that is fine, if not, it gets annoying. If the family plan included different profiles like Netflix does for instance, then it would be a better solution. I don't know that to be the case for Apple. Rdio had family plans as well.

Markus

Apple software will never be seen on my Android devices. It will see the same courtesy it has shown to Android directly or through its lobbying of companies that have unjustly challenged Android.

Martin

Haters gonna hate, hate, hate - Taylor Swift :-)))))
You are getting the biggest music library for a very good price (family subs). + connect, + radio (free even for non subscr.). And some of you call iSheeps Apple users? What are you then? A normal sheep? Delusional sheep? Sick of sick brand addicted people.. Google play music is sh*t, the only positive thing is the free 50000 upload (and when you upload from the WEB, good luck... Errors and all kind of crap..), there are still so much missing things and sometimes it doesn't show some of my albums in the Album tab.. Use what you want, but don't look for reasons to troll.. Some people were crying for Apple not releasing apps on Android, now they are bashing.

Speaking of hate... there seems to be a lot of unwarranted, uncalled-for ire toward Google Play Music, which seems to serve its purpose just fine. I see no compelling reason to switch. But again, that's me. My opinion is my own, and my own alone.